Woody Allen has been honest with his audience and has expressed his opinion about streaming platforms that, he says, have caused him to no longer be excited about making movies like before. So much so that he has surprised everyone by acknowledging that he will retire soon, probably to devote himself to writing, either with a novel or with essays like the ones he has recently published, called "Zero Gravity".
"I'll probably do at least one more movie, but a lot of the excitement is gone (...). When I started, the films would hit theaters all over the country and hundreds of people would go in big groups" while they stayed at the box office for months , he explained. The filmmaker, who has preferred to keep a more reserved profile for years, spoke about all this in a conversation with actor Alec Baldwin that he shared on Instagram and that covered many topics, although none controversial, such as accusations of sexual abuse of Allen's daughter, Dylan Farrow, against her father.
The director explained that he is preparing a film that will be recorded in Paris in the fall, but stressed that it will be one of the last of his career, because at 86 years of age he considers that "things are not like before. It's not like when I entered the business movies, I don't enjoy it that much or have fun.
Now, he said, the films stay in theaters for two weeks, six with luck, and then they go straight to the platforms. A reality that, although it had already been happening, has increased after the pandemic, which Allen described as "the end".
Beyond the cinema, his reflections were also for the theater and Broadway. The creator of hits like Annie Hall recalled a "variety" that in his opinion no longer exists because the famous district of the center of New York has become "a terrible shopping center".
"Now all the works are musicals, revivals, shows in which there are stars...", reeled Allen, who said he misses playwrights of the quality of Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller and showed disgust with multimillion-dollar productions.
"The world that I grew up in, that of cinema and Broadway, is no longer the same. It is less pleasant for me, and it is combined with the experience that I like to be at home writing, enjoying my free time," he added.
